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Colleges Turn to Social Prescribing for Student Mental Health

Original: Social Prescribing: How Colleges Treat Student Mental Health

US colleges are increasingly adopting social prescribing, an approach that connects struggling students to community activities, arts programs, volunteering and other non-clinical supports alongside traditional counseling. The model, long used in the UK, is being explored as campuses face rising demand for mental health services and long waits for treatment. Reporting by MindSite News highlights how the practice works and early results.

Why now: Growing concern over the student mental health crisis is driving interest in alternatives to conventional campus counseling.

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